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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by AnthonyMouse on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:16PM (#18906072)
"Monthly security updates to be supported for at least 3 years after initial phone release."

https://www.android.com/one/

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by scarface74 on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:40PM (#18907638)
There is a difference between “OS updates” and “security updates”. You get both with iOS and currently for the 5+ year old iPhone 5s.
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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @03:46AM (#18909705)
Or you could get lifetime updates with a Librem 5, which could also presumably run the latest Android indefinitely as well.

Hopefully the entire concept of needing OEM or carrier involvement to update your OS will be dead soon.

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by scarface74 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:44AM (#18910203)
And then not get any compatibility with apps that require Google Play Services or get updated to the closed source parts of Android that Google includes....
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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:20AM (#18922121)
Google Play isn't built in to LineageOS or similar, but you can still install it if you actually want it.
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